The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-09 00:00:00

THE DERBY.—RACE GLASSES (the best), at CALLAGHAN'S, 23k, New Bond-street , W. corner ot Conduit -street. N.B. — So le a g ent to Voigtlander, Vienna. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent -garden. From this time until the end of the season there will be four Opera nights in each week, viz., every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and satarday. Extra Night. Mademoiselle Destinn; Signor Wachtel. lETIIIS EVENING (Monday), May 9, will be performed, for the second time this season, Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, LE PROPEL ETE. Fides, Mdlle. Destine, her second appearance in that character in England ; Bertha, Madame Rudersdorff ; Count Oberthal, Signor Tazliafico ; Zaccaria, Signor Capp oni ; Mathisen, Mignor POlOllitli ; Giona, Signor Neri-Baraldi ; fSerg e ant, Signor Rossi ; Peasant, Signor Lucchesi; ce in that and Jean o f L e yden, Signor Wachte l, his second app eara. character in Eng, and. Conductor, Mr. Ccsta. The Grand Sloting Scene and incidental Divertissement will be supported by Md le. Salvoni, Mdlie. Carmine, Mdlle. IS avalre, anti M. Desplaces. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre cita Is, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre. 28. Gd. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theaire, which is open from teu to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. HEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L A.N E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. MGT Belmore. Alter which, will be produced the nd entitled Stage Revival of Shakspere's Chronicle or Hi storical Play, the First Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. The cast will include impersonations by . those eminent artists, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Waiter Lacy, Mr. A ddiso ,, , Mr. Ryder, Mr. ttobert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, M ss Retie Leclercq, ,nd Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lane Com pany. Concluding with MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS, THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. TFIIS EVENING, AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. Mr. Wm. Yarren and Miss I Harris. Atter which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. term.Sothe chipp,endale, Buckstone, Rogers, C . lark, Weathersby, Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. er wilich, the new Easter piec e, entitled VENUS AND Aft ADONIS. Messrs . . Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe, &c. ; Mes dames Lottisse heeiey, Snowden, N elly Power, Hill, Wright, Itogers, Ste. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole 3ianagement of Mr. Pechter. In consequence of the Rehearsals necessary for the com plete production of HAMLET, and the immense prepara tions requisite for the New Scenery, painted by Mr. W. Telbin, it is deemed necessary that the Theatre should be CLOSED until SATURDA Y, May 14th, when will be pre sented Shakespeare's HAMLEf. Hamlet, Prince of Den mark, Mr. Eechter. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, DRAWING-ROOMS, SECOND FLOOR, AND ATTICS. After which, Shakspere's ROMEO AND JULIET. Ro meo, Mr. J. Nelson ; Mercutio, Mr. Vining ; nurse, Mrs. H. Aleifston ; Juliet, Mdlle. Stella Colas. W TEATILE-E. O Y AL, ADELPtii.— s o lo Proprietor and Manager. M. B. Webster. Last Week but four of the mat Tragediene, Miss Bateman, in the character of LEAii. THIS EV ENING,an apropos Sketch, SHAKESPEARE'S ROUSE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Stephenson. Al er which, at 8, LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, Simmsps, Biliington, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Miss H. and Mrs. Billing,ton. F. To souclude with T BELLE 3'lesss. J. L. Too:e, B e dford, K. Romer H , E Miss AREA Woolgar, and Mrs. r H. Lewis. Commence at 7. MISS BATEMAN.-L E A H.-THI EVENING and EVERY EVENING.—Miss Bateman will appear in her great impersonation of the Jewish nia.dtn until further notice. In order :o give due elect to Vnas most rema rkable succes4 ot the se..son, eutireiy new scenery by the celebrated artists Messrs. Dans= and eons, and Thomps,n. New dr, oses and appo ntments have bean prepared for its productioc.—N. ii. In consequence of the wiressing and numerous applications at the Box-off;e, ar ingement,, have now been made by which Seats m , y be ob tained a Fortnight in Advan,e. YAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The greatly successful new Uomtdy every Evening. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular Fames of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. rank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. .1. Clarke, Mr. Plul Bedford, Mr. F. itobinson, Mr, Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Airs. Stirling. EVERY EVENING, at 7, a Farce, with a new sensation, called sHAKE HANDS Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Ashley. Mr. Johnstone ; Miss Fanny Josephs and Miss Patti Josephs. At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LIN LNG : Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. At lip, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. Mr. Charles Mathews and Mrs. Frank .alatthews. To conclude with UNDI4:II. THE ROSE. Commence at 7. On WEDNESDAY next, May 11, will 131 produced THE FOX CHACE, a new Come iy, by Dion Boucicault, Esq., in which Mr. an i Mrs. Charles Mathews will appear, and Miss Henrietta will make her first appearance. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manag:er, Mr. W. IL Swanborough. THIS EVENING, ON AND OFF. Followed by ORANGE BLOSSOMS. After which (11th time) MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, Turner, &c. ; Marie Wilton, Simpson, &c. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Commence at 7. COALS. —The LILCOLESHALL COMPANY'S lJ ALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 245. per ton. D0ub1e......... 203. per ton. ,f o p 23s. „ Nut 5........ 18s. „ Deep ....215. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCO TT, Sole Agent riltiE THIRD EDITION OF THE SUN," containing. the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, "tube had Every Evening of G. It GLhNIE, NEwa AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. :- - The Weather—Sun Office, May 9, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-2 9 . 53 . Wind—S.B.; strong breeze, with rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS Dior.—Morning, 4h. sm.—Afternoon, 4h. 28m. ra-mortitow.-Morning, 4h. 44m.—Afternoon, sh. sm. a.., 4 utt • ;w‘-`147, 4+4 LONDON, MONDAI, MAY 9, 1864. Rather than make the confusion they have made about him, Ministers had much better have left GARDIALDI alone altogether. 'Tie certainly a very pretty quarrel as it stands, and we wish them joy of it! This confusion of tongues (in regard to aeitixamm) between the working classes and her :MAJESTY'S Government. There is statement and there is co unter-statement. Each of them as cate gorical es possible. One says one thing, and the ether s ays exactly , d i a me t ri cally t h e r everse. Hot and cold, black and white—the discrepancy, here, is not one iota less flagrant. Which are we to believe P General GAB.IBALDI or Mr. GLADsToNE ? The working men generally, on this committee, or the pious Earl of SITAFTESBURY. We won't say, of amuse, that there is hard swearing upon both sides, or for that matter upon either side. But, really, if we are to call things by their right names, there is something as nearly as possible equivalent to it. F o r example—the w a y i n which the matter is put forward by the Earl of SHAFTESBURY (every one will remember what we are going to say who has at all watched this discussion) the emphatic way in which the matter in dispute is put forward by the Earl of SHAFTESBURY is (such a needless e mphasis one would think under the circumstances !) upon has, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY'S honour as a gentleman ! A strong way of putting it, cer tainly. Ia fact so strong a way of putting it that the statement 30 put will be accepted among gentle men as (what we have already implied it t o b e - ) equivalent to a statement upon oath. The same might be said, more or less, in regard to all the other statements to the same tfLet upon that same side, the side, namely, of those extremely solicitous friends of General GARIBALDI'S, who took more tender, one might almost say coddling care of Gen. GARIBALDrS health, than he was evidently inclined to take himself. The most they coucl, any of them, venture to say about his health, amounting at the same time, after all, to this--That General GARIBALDI looked fagged and that he 'was troubled with a boil or two! e F agg ed !" Poor fellowl—what a pity they never appear to have thought of supplying hi m with a vinaigrette I "Boils !" Well, really one would have conjectured that, even among old women, a poultice might have suggested itself as an instant means of obtaining alleviation. However, No! Vinaigrettes and Poultices are nothing to the pur poses in this extraordinary case. [An Irish echo— Very extraordinary !] 9ARIBALBI was looking fagged—GARIBALDI, upon close examination, was found to have a couple of boils on his arm? Away with him ! Let him take ship at once for Caprera Let him at any rate quit London immediately, or— there would be no answering for the consequences • A consideration for his health alone, in fact, prompted any interference like this with the general arrangements. They all said so: The most eminent surgeon living put it as plainly as possible, to that effect, in black and white. The GENERAL'S immediate removal from all this excite. ment was, he said, of the utmost consequence. The professional letter plainly asserted that, it will be r emembered—though it spoke of nothing more im portant as visible reasons for the assertion than a couple of boils and an appearance of fatigue. Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. SEELY stated pretty much the same thing, quite as distinctly, though in a different way. And, as a climax to everything, came the almost clerical Earl of SHAFTESBURY with his ultra positive statement to precisely the same effect " upon his honour as a gentleman." So much for that side. Now for the other—namely, for the side upon which it was maintained, upon which it has all along been maintained, upon which it is still as emphatically as ever maintained, that If 'Sonsiderations of health had next to nothing at all to do with GARIBALDI'S licensed departure. And at the head of those who were and are upon this side of the argument, who upon earth do we see all along but the principal personage in the whole malter under dispute ?—the fatigued looking hero with the two boils on his left arm—General GARIBALDI himself. Really, if he oughtn't to know anything about his own health, who ought ? It is for all the woild—under a more picturesque aspect, of course, but otherwise precisely the same —it is for all the world poor SANCHO, with the banquet, with even the table-cloth, snatched away from him, while his appetite is still strong upon him ! Yes—here, on this side, first and foremost, stands General GARIBALDI himself From first to last nothing will induce him to give the "state of his health" as a reason for his Hurried Departure. From the draft of the letter he is asked to sign,specifying that as a reason, he strikes the mention of the state of his health out altogether. Requested to say so and so, what are we now told to have been his point-blank reply ? My lord, I won't tell a lie." Then come the other declarations of committee men, of working men, and so forth, distinctly corroborative of the as sertions of GARIBALDI himself, and directly in opposi tion to the statements of Mr. GLADSTONE, of Mr. SEELEY, and of the Earl of SIIAFTESBURY. Else where will be found, in our columns, this evening, a detailed report of these extraordinary counter statements. But still, " elsewhere, this evening," it is to be earnestly hoped—meaning in the House of Commons—that Mr. GLADSTONE will be good enough to offer his explanations thereupon. His explanations are really required—these astounding eounter-statements being so very distinct, positive, and categorical. Following up the subject of compulsory examina tions for the bar, it has long been felt that all the suggestions which have been made for the promo- tion of legal education have been merely palliatives. The full and complete remedy had yet to be dis covered and applied. Now, such a remedy the Commissioners bppointed some ten years ago to inquire into the arrangements in the Inns of Court and Chancery, thought they had hit upon at last. It was, in a word, the application of the University system to the training for the bar. In the same way that Christchurch, Trinity, St. John's, are academic colleges, so Lincoln's lnn, the two Tem ples, and Gray's Inn would be legal colleges. In the same way that the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge are combined into uniformity of action by the intervention of a governing body, and co'- lectively receive the name of a University, so world the various Inns of Court and Chancery be com- bined, at least for the purposes of legal education and a legal University. This new and important body would have its chancellor elected for life, its vice-chancellor, and its senate. The senate would consist of eight members elected from each Inn of Court, five of whom, benchers elected by members, would represent the aristocratic element of the profession, and three, barristers elected by barris ters would represent the views and feelings of the general body of the bar. This, in fact, would have been to throw the regimen of this new University into the hands of the barristers, as upon any point of difference they would divide as 20 against 12. Whether this would have been a wise regulation or not, it is useless, after the lapse of eeveral years, to atop to inquire. Such was the proposal of the Commissioners of 1855. The Commissioners did not propose that the juris diction of their University ehould have extended beyond the incidence of forensic education. In point of fact, they laid it down in their 21st pro position that the Inns of Court should not be com pelled to call to the bar even the students who have passed the ordeal of the University examina tions. The Inns were to have retained their former powers not only ab to the admission of students, but even as to the disbarring of them after examination, subject to appeal to the judges. As far as admission is concerned this proviso would neces sarily be a dead letter, save in the case of enormous and notorious criminality. With regard to the dis barring of members of the bar, the powers exer cised at present by the benchers might with ad vantage be revived. The appeal to the judges has ever practically been found to be of little avail, it is so encompassed with doubts and uncertainties, e.nd the judges are so reluctant to move, that the powers of the benchers in the various inns of court amount to despotic authority. We suppose the aforesaid report was lost amid the din of the Crimean War, as nothing has been heard of now for many years. ve e will, however, as we have lately pointed out in two leading articles, that there was last Hillary Term appointed preliminary examinations in Latin the English language, and English history)—just state what the resolution of the Commissioners nine years ago relative to the education of bar students wa s. Their legal university was to have appointed regular examiners who would have organised a preliminary examination of candidates for admis sion as students• After this was to have followed a more serious examination, or series of examina tions, which every person :who was desirous of having been called to the bar must of necessity have passed. The needful knowledge was to was to havetohave been divided into t wo b r anches. The comprised. constitutional law and legal history. The second embraced as subjects the common law, equity, and the law of :real property. A pass or certificate for a call to the bar was to have been obtained by passing n in each branch. The candidat es for ono e jet a c nd for the higher degree of Master of Laws must have resolved to have grappled with the full difficulties of the subjects enumerated above. There was to have been one studentship, worth X5O per annum, retainable for four years, to arouse the emulation and tempt the ambition of the students. For further particulars of the proposition of the Commissioners, we must refer to the abstract of their report published about nine years ago. Suffice it for the moment to say, here was the University system of education imported into the metropolis and applied to the study of the law. Without pledging ourselves to an opinion upon any single question of detail, we hasten to record our warmest approval of the general principle. It is a fact that our two great Universities do every year turn out good mathematicians and classical scholars. It is another fact that the Inns of Court in London have hitherto not given an►y legal education at all, or it has been of so permissive a character as to amount to a nullity. How can we expect to have a succession of good lawyers if we will not be at the pains of training them ? Many reproaches have been showered, and with perfect justice, upon our system of laws in England. They are illiberal, they are illogical, they are patchwork, they are out of date, they are a mass of frivolous formula and tiresome technicalities. The question is who is to make them better ? It is is vain for a layman to enter upon the task, for all the owls, bats, and spiders of Westminster Hall will do their worst upon him if he dare to invade their holy precincts with the faintest corner of a duster visible beneath his coat-sleeve. Are we to look for assistance to the lawyers themselves? They are men who have been educated in two ways. They have been shut up for a couple of years or more in the chambers of pleaders or conveyancers, with no higher objects of study than the draughts of pleas and conveyances, which it was their duty to copy and re-copy usque ad nauseam. When well saturated with these abominable forms, the aspiring young lawyer puts on his wig and gown, and for a time in the back rows of Westminster imbibes more legal knowledge from the lips of the judges—in other words, he learns to do just what his predecessors had done before him. It is ob vious that from such a man little can be expected for the improvement of our laws. We have hitherto been employed in tinkering away at our laws as best we could to overcome the resistance of the pro- ession. From the moment that a sound system of legal education is at work we shall find our task all the lighter. We must train up workmen fit for the work which an enlightened community has a right to expect at their hands. The Bar has hitherto been rather an illberal than a liberal profession. There has been plenty of hair-spliting, plenty of acuteness in cross examination, and of sharp practice not a little, but with the exception of half a dozen great Judges and Advocates, our lawyers have been rather behind than before the great mass of the edu cated community. Another advantage which would probab'y follow from the system of public examination and public honours in law would be that it would have a tendency to diminish the evils of nepotism and attorney favour. Attorneys are often enough unjustly blamed for preferring their own proteges to strangers, but how are we to select from among the younger barristers in the back rows the men who are really most likely to do them good service. Surely the senior wrangler in law will have a chance given him at a far earlier period than the mute inglorious MANSPIELDS who have pined and died in obscurity under the present most disgrace ful system. THE SUN, LONDOV, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1864. LATEST INTELLIGENCE Thiers' Speech on the French Budget, Frightful Boiler Explosion on he Metropo • Man Railway, LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. The Royal Mail steamship Asia, from Boston on the 27th and Halifax on the 29th, arrived at Queenstown at 3.20 a.m. on the Bth May. She brings 110 passengers, 9 of whom, together with 130 sacks of mails, were landed. The Asia proceeded at 3.40 a.m. for Liverpool. All well. (Per the Asia, via Roche's Point.) NEW YORK, APRIL 26 (Evening). Detailed Red River advices state that General Banks skirmished heavily with the Confederates upon the 7th instant. A portion of Banks's army fought a severe battle on the Bth at Sabine Cross roads with the whole of the Confederate army under Kirby Smith, resulting in a Federal defeat with heavy loss ; 24 Federal guns being left upon the field. General Backs retreated on the night of the Btb, joining the remainder of his army at Pleasant hill. The Confederates renewed the attack on the 9th upon the whole of Banks's army at Pleasant hill, bat were repulsed with the loss of several guns. Banks continued his retreat on the 10th, 35 miles, to Natchitooches and Grand Eoore, where he is re-organising his army and fortifying the banks of the river. Dcampaign Banks lost 3,500 men, 18 gone, a trin an g the and 300 o waggons:Confederate General Hoke assaulted and captured Plymouth, North Carolina, on the 20th inst., with 1,500 prisoners and 30 guns. It is reported that the Confederates killed 150 negro troops after they were captured. Hoke is supposed to be moving on Little Washington and Newberg. Two rams co operated in Hoke's movement. President Lincoln reviewed Burneide'a army at at Washington yesterday. Commodore Parker, who has returned from a gunboat reconnaissance up the Rappahannock, states that the Confederates have replaced the tor pedoes in that river and all the branches of the Chesapeake. General Forrest is reported to be moving towards Alabama, and Bishop Polk is marching to join him. President Lincoln has accepted the offer made by the governors of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and lowa, of the services of 100,000 volunteers for 100 days for fortification and frontier duty. In the Senate the New York Legislature have laid on the table the governor's recommendation that the interest of the state debt be paid in coin. (By Telegraph to Halifax.) NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Morning.) General Longstreet is reported to have taken up a position on the left of Lee's army. Mobile dispatches state that the Red River had fallen, leaving 40 gun boats and transports unable to move until the water rises. The Federals have ordered two French frigates to return from the James River. They obtained no tobacco. The First Auditor of the Treasury has been ordered to leave Richmond for Montgomery. The Bremen and the City of Baltimore have arrived out. NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Evening). Advices from New Orleans state that the Federal gunboats have succeeded in returning to Grand Ecore, furnishing Banks with ammunition, and Banks has again advanced towards Shreveport. No movements by General Lee or Meade have been made public. A battle between them is imminent. Both armies are ready for a conflict; hut their plans of campaign are still kept secret. The House of Representatives has passed a re- Eolution increasing import duties 50 per sent. for 60 days. It is reprted that the Senate will modify this resolution by increasing the tariff temporarily 33 per cent., and exempting bonded goods. COMMERCIAL. (Per the Asia, via Roche's Point.) NEW YORK, APRIL 26 (Evening). Money higher. Gold fluctuated since Monday between 1794 and 185, but rumours of fresh move ments by Secretary Chase being current, gold de. clined to-day to 1819, at which it closed. Exchange on London, 1981. The improvement in stocks con tinned yesterday, but the market took a strong down ward reaction to-day, and is still tending down wards. New York Centrals, 1356; Illinois Cen trals, 1314 ; Erie, 1151 ; United States Six per Cent. Bonds, 1141. Petroleum, crude, 38; refined, 55c. to 58c. (B y Telegraph to Halifax.) NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Morning). Money tight. Gold 1779. NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Evening). Money tight. Gold, 18 11--feverish and fluctu ating rapidly. Exchange, 197. Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 135 ; Illinois Centrals, 129 i; Erie, 1141- ; Six per cent. United States Bonds, 1141. Cotton steady : middling Upland, 83c. to 84c. Flour heavy. Wheat dull. Corn quiet. Pro visions quiet. Coffee very firm. Sugar go od in quiry. Molasses steady. Petroleum tendin g downwards : crude, 37c. ; refined, 55c. to 070. The discussion on the budget opened in the French Corps Legislatif on Friday. M. Thiers was the first speaker. He criticised very elaborately the gradual increase in the ex- penses. It was difficult to know what was the real state of the budget, owing to the great pains taken to disguise its continual accretion. He was not satisfied with the division into " budget ordinary " and " budget extraordinary ;" and for this reason —in the first place, that when an extraordinary budget had lasted 25 years it became something very like an ordinary budget—(laughter)—and next, because, by the aid of the word " extraor dinary," the taapayer was made to put up with many objectionable expenses, and many (so. called) receipts of a very equivocal nature. In a budget not called " extraordinary " it would be difficult to put forth boldly as resources money expected to come from Cochin China and Mexico. M. Thiera established an elaborate comparison between the necessities of state at the commencement of the Government of 1839, of the Government of the Republic of 1848, and of that of the Empire of 1852, and drew the conclusion that the present Government had been by far the moat extravagant of all. He paid a compliment to M. Gamier Pages for not having had recourse to paper money in 1848. The orator concluded as follows :--I take the budget and I find 1,799 millions for revenue; deduct 92 millions for the sinking fund, and you have 1,707 millions; take 229 millions of incontestable receipts from the budget called special, and you reach a figure of 1,936 millions. I discuss too fairly not to put down the augmentations of receipts. As it is a question of 1865 we may anticipate an in- crease of receipts for two years, and taking it at 20 millions each, or 40 millions for the two, we arrive at the figure of 1,976. Let us even say 1,980 mil lions ; still we have not reached 2,300, and every year you are obliged to apply to the sinking fund or to the public to make up the deficit in your ac counts. Such is the real situation, and who can dispute it ? Is it true that you have only 1,980 millions of receipts, and that the expenses amount to from 2,200 millions to 2,300. You will say that many of those charges are not permanent, and that they will decrease. I hope that such may be the case, and it is in order to be sure that it will be so that I enter so fully into the discussion of the budget. (Approbation.) Bat in what proportions do you think that those expenses will diminish ? The serious error is to have allowed them to reach so high. The debt will diminish when you shall have re-established the equilibrium of the budget and when the sinking fund shall work, and when can:that take place ? As to the war expenses, we are told that we shall disarm, but I cannot under stand that expression. To talk of disarming is to make Enrope believe that France is under arms ; but I affirm that with our 400,000 men we are perhaps the only Power on a peace footing. To say we shall disarm is to subject France to a demand for disarmament. (Approbation.) What are the countries which are in arms ? Italy for Venetia, and that is very natural; Austria for the same motive, and that is very simple ; Russia on account of Poland, end also in consequence of the attitude of diplomacy ; Prussia is in a state of semi -armament; England is not armed, but she is executing extensive works of fortifications. We have always had 100,000 men out of the territory, and we shall have the same after the Mexican expedition shall be at an end. Africa will always require 70,000 men, The 400,000 men who compose our army are therefore neces • nary, and for that force to be too large a moral re volution must take place in the world. Italy must no longer wish to have Venetia, or Austria must be willing to abandon it ; Russia must give up Poland, and the latter no longer seek to rise in in- surrection ; no Power must any longer covet the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, or Prussia seek to add to her dominions the territory of some of the co-federates around her. (Laughter.) The war expenses cannot, therefore, be quickly decreased, nor that of the marine until the ships on distant stations shall have returned. Lastly, the expenses of collection will not be leseened until you shall have suppressed the war taxes which weigh on us. Mexico will, it is said, cease to be a burden. She will repay all that she owes, and the 100 millions she has ccs.t us for the last three years will disap pear from the budget. You will then return to the budget of 2,200 millions. The only remedy is, therefore, to remain at peace, and that I hope we shall have the prudence to do. In that case, and if fortune does not abandon us, you may re-establish the budgetary equilibrium and be in a normal situation. But after that period of prudence the war taxes must be abolished; the second decime, the tax on movable property, and on spirits —all of which are, in my opinion, war taxes—must disappear. Then you will arrive at that situation which reason may avow, and at which foresight cannot feel alarm. Allow me now to conclude by a few political reflections. I will begin by saying that the Imperial Government at its outset mani fested inclinations which I am far from blaming, but which in two budgets had already led to an increase of 100 millions, and which have since aug mented. I have heard many sincere and reasonable men say—What will you have ? The country possesses such great activity that it must be con. stantly supplied both at home and abroad. When we have not Sebastopol or Milan to enter we must go to Pekin or Mexico. That is vary true; I admit that France has a genius of pcwerful activity, and that a strong aliment must be given to it. And when I look back two centuries and see what aliments Providence supplied, I am not surprised at the desire to procure more, Under ILouis IV. what sublime aliments were given to the national genius ! Rocroy, Nerwinde, Almenza ; at the same time as " Cid," " Athalie," the " Misan thrope," and Bossuet's sublime orations. In the eighteenth century there was not the same glory. Frame allowed the Great Frederick to fill the North of Europe with his victories, and consoled herself with musing over the regenera tion of human society. She laboured to that end by her writers, and exulted in the glory of Buffon, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rous seau. Then came the Revolution, when France no longer pursued the work of regeneration by the pen bat by the swords of her generals. She herself was regenerated. Blood flowed where she passed, but civilisation followed her; and tae world, while it detested our glory, was obliged to acknowledge our benefits. At last came peace. What aliment was then offered to oar devouring genius P Liberty. (Loud approbation.) Here, for 30 and odd years, at this tribune, and before I ascended it myself, I re spectfully listened to the great minds of our age discussing the affairs of France and of the whole world. Men were impassioned for grand ideas and and noble causes—for Greece and for Italy. In these passions and struggles there were illusions, but they were based on noble motives. The genius of France was ardently occupied. In 1851, in the interest of order, it was necessary to drop the curs tain on this scene; it was requisite to occupy the country otherwise, and our budget may tell you how much it costs to occupy the country otherwise than by liberty. But I hope, if the Emperor persists— as I have no doubt he will—in his noble policy of gradually restoring liberty, the issue will prove that liberty does not deserve all the evil said of it. And, even if it should, there is one reflection which you have doubtless made—namely, that if liberty has all the demerits laid to its charge, there is no denying the great cost of finding a substitute for it. (Loud cheers.) The debate was then adjourned to the next day. SOUTH YORKSHIRE WOOL TRADE. —The wool trade in this locality is now almost as brisk as it will be in any part of the season, but many farmers are dis posed to wait for the opening of the Doncaster wool market on the 28th inst., in hope of obtaining even higher prices than are paid at the present moment. Fine hog wool is in great demand, and, although fully 2s 6d per lb is paid, many farmers and large wool dealers are sanguine enough to be lieve that before the close of the season higher rates will be paid. Whether this will be the case or not the representa tives of the leading houses in the West Riding are anxious purchasers at 2s 5d and 2s 6d per lb for the best descriptions of wool, and these prices are paid, not only at the various towns in South Yorkshire, but in the adjacent wide agri cultural districts of North Lincolnshire, This morning a boiler explosion, happily un attended with loss of life, occurred at the Bishop's road station of the Metropolitan Underground lti,j l • way. It occurred at five minutes past nine, at which time a train, driven by William Greatorex, an ex perienced driver, was on the point of starting,when the boiler burst with a terrific crash, throwing the dome of the boiler, weighing 6 cwt., almost perpen dicular to an immense height, and then it fell near to the Dudley Arms at the foot of the Harrow-road bridge, a distance of about 2 1 0 yards from the station. After the steam had escaped it was found that a large portion of the roof had been blown away, and one of the approaches to the bridge which crosses from one platform to the other entirely demolished. The plate glass windows (1 -inch thick) on both sides of the station were smashed into thousands of atoms, and the engine—lately full of mechanical life—lay helpless and a wreck on its resting irons. Strange to say, the driver, who was on the engine at the time, escaped unhurt, and T. Mount (the stoker) received only a slight wound on the top of his head. In the carriage compartment next to the engine shock was felt very slightly, but in the next compartment both the windows were blown in, and one young gentleman, a passenger, was severely cut about the head and face with the glass, Im mediately after the accident Inspector Egerton and Sergeant Hawtree, of the D division, together with a force of men, were on the spot, and assisted ma terially in subsiding the confusion. Inspector Warrele, of the Great Western Railway, was also there, and gave great assistance. The cause of the accident is ascertained to be the worn out eta eof the engine boiler For a number of years it was worked ou the Great Northern line, and a few months ago it was altered into a con densing engine, which is well known to require to be double the strength of ordinary locomotive boilers. At the time of the explosion the indicator tells that the steam was 110 lbs. on the square inch, and had just begun to escape through the safety va ve. It is fortunate the explosion took place where it did. Had it occurred in the tunnel the damage done and loss of life must have been frightful. From late inquiries at St. Mary's Hos pital we learn the following list of casualties : John Crofts, 5, Chichester-place, Paddington, very severely cut down the forehead and bridge of nose, also on the crown of the head ; George Hall, of the General Managers Office, Great Western Railway, cheek cut; Thomas Mount, 49, Woodford place, Paddington, wounded on the top of the head ; a boy, name unknown, very severely injured on his head and body ; various other persons more or less hurt, not taken to the hospital. The dome fell in Hanover road, in close proximity to au omnibus. We have received the following letter, dated May 9, from the General Manager of the Metro politan Railway Company : Sir, —I regret to have to inform you that the boiler of a Great Northern engine burst whilst standing in the station at Bishop's Road this morning. The engine driver escaped without injury; the stoker, the breaksman, and one of the company's office boys were badly cut, and were removed to thd hospital; two or three persons were also slightly cut. The engine was removed in about half an hour, and the trains have since worked regularly. LAW INTELLIGENCE--This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Shee.) THE QUEEN V. THE MAGISTRATES OF LIVERPOOL. A short time ago Mr. Ed ward James, Q.C., obtained a rule nisi calling upon the magistrates of Liverpool to show cause why a writ of habeas should not issue to bring up the bodies of three Americans nameil Quency, Kelly, and Clements, of the ship Legerity, now in custody for piracy on the high seas within the jurisdiction of America. It appeared that a requisition was made on the 15th of February to the Secretary of State Sir George Grey, by the American Minister, 11r. Adams, under the treaty be tween this country and America and the Act of Extradi tion, or an information duly sworn, in which it was stated the three persons named had been guilty of piracy on the high seas; the application being made at the instance of the Federal Government, and the defendants being in the service of the Confederates. Upon that re quisition the Secretary of State issued the warrant fur the apprehension of the defendants and their examination, and, in the event of committal, of being de livered up to the American Government under the Treaty of Extradition. The case was one of great importance, as, if the interference of the court was not obtained, the defend ants might be delivered up to the Federal Government, and be without any remedy. The contension of the learned coun sel was that upon the face of the depositions and evidence taken before the magistrates it clearly appeared that they acted only as belligerents and not as pirates, and also that if they committed an act of piracy, as alleged, on the high seas, they might be tried in this country in the Court of Admiralty. Mr. Lush, Q.C., this morning showed cause against the rule, and the conclusion of the learned gentleman's speech the junior counsel followed on the same side, and contended that the rule ought to be discharged. The Court had not pronounced its decision when we went to press, but it appeared to be unnaimously of opinion that the rule to issue the writ ought to be made absolute. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE COLONEL ITAUGR.—DIVIDEND MEETING. A. dividend meeting being appointed under this estate, Mr Munns (Harrison and Lewis) applied for an adjourn ment on behalf of the Eastern Banking Cempany. His Honour said he had thought it had been settled by Mr Commissioner Evans. Mr Linklater was of the same opinion. Mr Munns said it had not, and it involved a very impor tant question. On the proceedings being referred to, it appeared that there had been a claim for £254,000, and the only entry was admitted as to 414,500, but it became a question if it was a proof even to that extent, as there was no affidavit, and it was urged that that was only in respect of calls, and had nothing to do with the account. His Honour questioned whether he had the power to enforce, and whether they ought not to go to the Court of Appeal—the first point to discuss was whether the bank rupt could be heard here. Mr Linklater said that proof was tendered January, 1859. His Honour said that in the absence of Mr J. Linklater, who had conducted the proceedings, it was impossible to say what had been done, and it was ultimately arranged that the dividend should be adjourned till the 16th June, when the matter might be fully discussed. A proof by Messrs Laurie and Co,, coachmakers, for £6OO, which was in a verysimilar position, was also ordered to stand over. Adjourned to the 16th July, to which day it is under stood the last examination will be adjourned, as Messrs C. Brown and Dubois have not yet completed the accounts. MDLLE. PATTI'S BENEFIT AT PARIS, the other night, realised for the fortunate artzsts £6OO. SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—A frightful tragedy was enacted at the village of Bradley, within the town ship of Huddersfield, on Saturday. Joseph Pogson, a cloth worker, aged 61, who had retired upon a small sum of money which he had accumulated from his earnings, lived with his niece, to whom he had been attached from child hood, at the house of her husband, a man named Joseph Haigh,who was also a workman at the mill at which Pogson had formerly been employed. Haigh was regarded as a steady, religiously disposed man, but latterly he has become very morose and has indulged in fits of violence towards his wife, by whom, however , no complaints were made. On Saturday morning he awoke his wife about 4 o'clock with the strange request that she would pray with him, and she complied with his request. While repeating the Lord's Prayer he suddenly struck her a violent blow on the face with his fist, and accused her of mocking him. She pacified him for the time being, but in about an hour the paroxysm of violence returned, and she fled out of the house in terror, being clothed in nothing but her night dress. Her intention was to alarm the neighbours, but before doing so she ven tured to return again into the house, Immediately on doing so her husband laid violent hands upon her, and her screams and those of the children in an adjoining room rang through the house. The old man, Pogson, was alarmed and went to his room door in his night clothes to ascertain what was the matter. Haigh no sooner saw him on the landing than he relinquished his violent grasp of his wife, who again fled for safety into the street, and vented his frenzied violence upon Pogson. He throw him down, jumped and trampled upon all parts of his body, especially upon his head, causing his right jaw to protrude from his cheek, and fracturing his skull in a frightful manner. The old man never spoke or manifested signs of conscientiousness afterwards, and did not survive his injuries three hours. Haigh was taken before the Huddersfield magistrates and remanded to Tues day to await the result of a coroner's inquest, which will be held on Monday. It is presumed by his friends, judging from his manner both before and after the commission of the murder, that Haigh is insane. He is between 40 and 50 years of age. FZ) t i ffUTt . eirtHliar. HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, May 7. The Queen and Princess Louise walked and drove yesterday morning. MAY 8. The Queen drove out yesterday with Princess Helena, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. Prince Leopold, attended by Lord A. Paget and Mr. Buff went on board her Majesty's ship Prince Consort, in Cowes Roads. This morning herMijesty the Queen, their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service at Osborne. The Rev. G. Prothero performed the service. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales held a Levee at St. James's Palace on Saturday after noon on behalf of her Majesty. His Royal Highness, escorted by a detachment of the Ist Life Guards, and attended by Lord Alfred Hervey, the Hon. R. H. Meade, and Major Tees dale, left Marlborough-house at five minutes to 2 o'clock. 11;s Royal Highness wore the uniform of a Gene ral Officer with the Orders of the Garter and Star of India; The Prince of Wales rode out in the afternoon, attended by Major Teesdale. The Princess of Wales drove ont in the afternoon, attended by the Hon Mrs. William Grey. Their Royal Highnesses gave a dinner party in the evening. The following were invited :—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Mar.., chieness of Ely, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Danish Minister, Earl and Countess de Grey and Ripon, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, M. de Quaade, M. do Krieger, Lord and Lady Churchill, Sir A. and Lady Paget, Baron de Bertouch, Baron Gueldencrone, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. H. and Mrs. Byng, the Hon. Mrs. William Grey, the Hon. R. H. Meade, Lieutenant-General Knollys, Colonel Tyrwhitt (Equerry in Waiting or. the Duke of Cambridge), the Rev. C. F. Tarver, and Major Teesdale. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Hon„ Mrs. W. Grey and Major Teesdale in waiting, at tended Divine service at the. Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The Communion ser vice was read by the Rev. the Sub-dean, the Rev. J, V. Povah, and the Rev, C. F. Tarver. The Rev. C. F. Tarver, Chaplain to her Majesty and Royal Highness the Prince of Waits, preached the sermon from I. St. Peter, c. 4, v. 7. Anthem—" Lift up your heads "—Handel. Mr. Goss presided at the organ. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales drove to Kew in the afternoon. MEXICO. NEW YORK, APRIL 26 (Evening). Advices received here from Mexico to the Ist instant state that Governor Vidaerri has left Mon terez with 2,000 men and 27 guns. Juarez's forces occupied Monterey. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. SUEZ, MAY 7. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Imperatrice arrived here to•day. The Said will leave Alexandria on the 9th, and ratly be expected at Marseilles on the 14th instant. WEEK.--Tlais day—Geogra --- P p h v i c a l a i l i , v a i a t 8 a i n : d " fa h y p ti l i a C t a a I , LITERARY AND SCIENTIFI C MEETINGS FOR THE "Alabaster Sarcophagus, Geography of Regions between ' &c.," Senor Co x; R o y a l I n stitution , at 2 : General monthl y . Tuesday—Syro-Egyptian, at 7/ Scene Museum," Mr. Bonomi ; Engineers, at 8: " Manu facture of Cork," M. Pernole t ; Royal Institution, at 3: is Animal Life," Prof. Marsha ll ; Ethnological, at 8 ; Zoo logical, at 9 : " New Rat frou i Formosa," Mr. Swinhoe. Wednesday —Archaeological Association, at 41: Annual General; Geological, at 8 : " Section with Mammalian Re mains near Thane," Mr. Codring ton ; " Deposit at Stroud, containing Flint Implements." Mr. Witchell; " Earth quake in England, Oct. 6, 186 3 ," Ma j or Austin ; " Wh i te LimGesrtaopnheico,faJtaB ; maiiNciai,:osAclorp. Microscopical, at 8. Thursday—Royal ; Society of Arts, at 8 ; Institution, at 3 : " M us ic, 160 0-1750, " Prof essor Hullah ; aAtnBti;cra Royal arie I s, antsBti;tußtiooyna,l,atas '' Mechanical use of Gun cotton," Friday—Astronomical, cotton," Mr. J. Scott Russell. Saturday—Royal Institu tion, at 3: "Metallic Elements," Professor Frankland.— Athenceum. __ _ _ THE HGME SECRETARY AND H.M. SHIP AURORA. —The replies which Sir George Grey has given to his various questioners in reference to the movements of her Majesty's ship Aurora (says the Army and Navy Gazette) have, in the absence of his chief, been very cautious. The Aurora has, as Sir George truly stated, not been ordered to the Baltic; she has been merely sent to reconnoitre, and in the event of any pledge given by the Governments of the German Powers being broken by their officers, she has directions to telegraph the news to London, and the result can be easily anticipated—the instant depar tute of the Channel fleet, The Aurora was, when last heard of, at Heligoland. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. We have much pleasure in stating that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and suite will honour the performances at this theatre to-night with their presence, The visit of his Royal Highness cannot but be looked" upon as highly complimentary to the management of Messrs. Fal. coner and Chatt:rton, as, since the reign of Macready, royalty has not honoured Old Drury withits cheering presence. The Emperor of Russia and Prince Gortschakoff. The Emperor Alexander has addressed to the Vice-Chancellor of the Empire, Prince Gortschakoff, the following letter, dated April 19, 1864 : " Prince Alexander M ichaelovitch,—ln constantly urging you, according to my directions, to strengthen on solid bases the amicable relations of Russia with foreign Powers, you have not ceased to completely justify the confidence I placed in you, and the im portant services which you have rendered to the State have more than once called forth the expres sion of my sincere gratitude. You have now ac quired new claims in this respect. When, during the year which has expired, the political complica tions provoked by the Polish rebellion menaced the inviolability of the rights of Russia, and, in com promising general peace, might have retarded the development of the reforms undertaken in the in• ternal organisation of the country for the prosperity of the empire, it was necessary that my care should in the first place be directed to the means of secur ing the dignity and the legitimate rights of Russia. Your experience, your ardent love, and your devo- Lion for the throne and the country, caused me to find in you a worthy interpreter of my wishes and of my intentions. The conflicts which menaced Russia and the attempts at unjust interference in her internal affairs having been frustrated, the ob ject of the trusts which I confided to you, and of which you acquitted yourself with zeal, has been accomplished to the honour and glory of Russia, which are the first objects of care. In just conside ration of these eminent services, and as a particular proof of my sentiments towards you, I confer on you my portrait surrounded with diamonds, sent herewith to be worn at the button-hole with the ribbon of St. Andrew, and I remain with invari able consideration (from the hand of the Emperor), your sincerely affectionate and grateful ALEX ANDER." BEETHOVEN'S OVERTURE TO " CORIOLAN."—The tragedy for which Beethoven wrote his overture is called "Coriolan ; ein Trauerspiel, in fiinf Aufzugen, von Collin. Berlin, bei. J. F. Unger, :804," 148 pages, Bvo. It has no connexion whatever with Shakspere's play of " Coriolanus." The characters are, with two or three ex ceptions, different.—Coriolan kills himself. There are no mobs, nor comedy—all is tragedy of the most severe kind Collin (or Von Collin, as he is called in the dedication of the overture) was Hof Secretair in the Hofkriegs Kanzeley, at Vienna. Reichardt, the musician, saw him there in 1808, and heard him read his play of " Bradamante" (after Ariosto), which Collin stated Beethoven had proposed to deck with music, if an arrangement could have been made with the director of the Theatre. Collin was apparently well known in those days as the writer of certain patriotic songs for the " Oesterreichischer Wehromanner," and seems to have been, by position and abilities, a considerable person. The volume contains a second tragedy by him, called " Polyxena," and yet another, " Regulus," is men tioned. Beethoven's overture may have been first played at an amateur concert at Vienna, in December, 1807, with the " Eroica" and B flat Symphonies.-4 Correspondent of the Atheneum. MR. R. REDGRAVE, R.A., is engaged in com piling a catalogue of all the pictures now forming the Royal Collections and deplsited in the various palaces dispersed over the country, This work is to be illustrated by photographs of all the works, executed upon a uniform scale, and which already amount to more than 1,000 in number. Mr Redgrave is executing his laborious and important task in the most careful and conscientious man ner. When completed the book will give a history of the pictures in question. It contains-1, the name of the painter of any work-2, if it is signed or dated-3, autho rity for any other name-4, description of the subject, and any other information respecting it-5, size -8, material 7, state of the picture at the date of the entry-8, state of the panel or canvas-9, character of the frame, and its size 10, catalogUe-marks, a, on the front, b, on the back, c, on the frame-11, statement of in what known catalogues or inventories the picture is described, the dates and palaces to which they refer-12, palace where the picture is at present laced-13, how the picture came into the Royal Collec tions-14, notes and remarks. The last includes the name of the photographer aud the date of his operation. The Levee, By commani of the Queen, a Levee was held on Saturday at St. James's Palace by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Presentations at this court are by the Queen's pleasure to be considered as equivalent to presentations made to her Majesty. The Prince of M ales, attended by his Gentlemen-in- Waiting, arrived at the Palace from Marlborough. house about 2 o'clock, and was received by the great Officers of State of her Majesty's household. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge (attended by his Equerry, Colonel Tyrwhitt), and his Serene High ness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, were present at the Levee. Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentle men at Arms was on duty in the State Saloons, under the command of the Lieutenant. The Royal Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Guard were on duty, under the command of Colonel Bourke, the Exon in W aiting. The Prince of Wales entered the Throne Room, accom panied by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe.Weimar, and attended by the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Steward ; the Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain; Viscount Bury, the Treasurer of the Queen's Household ; Viscount Castle roses, Vice-Chamberlain; Lord Proby, Controller of the Queen's Household; Lieut.-General Knollys, Controller and Treasurer of the Household of the Prince of Wales; Lord Torrington, Lord in Waiting to the Queen; Colonel F. Seymour, Groom in Waiting to the Queen; Lord Charles Fitzroy, Equerry to the Queen; Lord Alfred Hervey, Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales; the Hon. Robert Meade, Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales; and Major Teesdale, Equerry to the Prince of Wales. The Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers were intro duced, when the following presentations to the Prince of Wales, on the part of the Queen, took place in the diplo matic circle : By the Envoy from Sweden and Norway.—Le Comte Gustav Hamilton de Sperlingsholm, a Swedish nobleman. The Diplomatic circle was attended by the Turkish Am bassador (M. Musurus) and Etienne Musurus Bey, Secre tary of Embassy—the Austrian Ambassador (Count Apponyi), the Austrian Plenipotentiary (M. de Biegeleben) —Count Wimpffen, Councillor of Embassy, and Baron Dornberg, attache—the Russian Ambassador (Baron de Brunnow), and M. Sabouroff, Councillor of Embassy—the Prussian Ambassador (Count de Bernetorff), the Prussian Plenipotentiary (M, de Balan), Baron Freedericks, M. Frederic de Katte and Baron de Witzleben—the French Ambassador (the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne), the Mar quis de Cadore, the Comte de Montmarin and the Vicomte de Virel, the Belgian Minister (M. do Van de Weyer), and Baron Edward Whetraall, attache, the Bavarian Minister (Baron de Cetto), and Count Paumgarten, Secretary of Legation, the Italian Minister (the Marquis de Azeglio), and the Chevalier Curtopassi, Secretary of Legation, the Netherland Minister (Baron Bentinck, the Portuguese Minister (Count de Lavradio), and the Chevalier de Santos, the Saxon Minister (Count Vitzthum)—the Plenipotentiary of the Germanic Confederation (M. de Beust)—the Danish Minister (M. de Bille) ; the Danish Plenipotentiaries (M. de Quaade and M. de Kreiger) ; Baron Rosenkrantz and Baron Guldenkrane—the Minister of Honduras (M. Gu tierrez)—the United States' Minister (Hon. Charles Adams) and Mr. B. Moran, second Secretary of Legation—the Swedish and Norwegian Minister (Count Wachtmeister)— the Peruvian Minister (M. Sanz), the Spanish Minister (M. Comyn), M. Augustus Conte, first Secretary of Em bassy, and the Duc de Granada, attache, and the Haytian Minister (M. Dubois). RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR.—Her Majesty the Queen and the younger members of the royal family will leave Osborne, it is expected, about three o'clock this afternoon and return to Windsor Castle, arriving at Windsor about six o'clock. Her Majesty will probably remain for a day or two at the Castle, and then take her departure, accompanied by the royal family and the various members of the Court, for Balmoral, where the Queen will spend the summer months, . . _ - TWO GRAND BALLS will be given at Buckingham Palace during the month of June. His Excellency Prince do la Tour d'Auvergne wiil give a grand ball at the French Embassy on the 20th inst. The Duke and Duchess of Bucclench and the Ladies Scott arrived at their temporary residence in Bel grave-square on Saturday from Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh, for the season. The Dc,ke of Newcastle, having passed two favourable nights, is decidedly better. It cannot be said that his grace is out of danger. The Marquis of Clanricade and Lord Bunkellin, M.P., returned to town on Saturday from Dablin. The Earl and Countess Russell, who left town on Saturday for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond park, return to tt.wn to-day. It was the Dowager Countess of Morton who at tended the Drawing Room on Tuesday last, and not the Countess of Morton, as stated in the report next day. Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere and Vis countess Combermere will arrive in Belgrave-square on Thursday next, for the season. _ _ Lady Blantyre returned to town on Saturday from Erskine House, N.B. The noble lord will return on Wed nesday or Thursday next from Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Zetland entertained a soled party at dinner on Friday evening at their residence iu Arlington-street. The Earl Howe is considerably better, and is fast recovering from his remit indisposition. The Earl Cadogan is said to be rather better, ac cording to the bulletins of Saturday and yesterday. Viscount Palmerston is, we learn from unques tionable authority, recovering from his attack of gout, and in a few days will be able to resume his usual place in the House of Commons ; in all probability before the house ad journs for the holidays. THE PRINCESS ANNA MURAT is a Protestant , but for some time past she has been receiving private religious instruction from M. Deguerry, cure of the Madeleine, with a view to her conversion to Catholicise►• The resolution of the Princess is said to be definitivell taken, and-the day fixed for her abjuration is not far dis- tart.—Court Journal. tim. DE TALLEYRAND, only son of the Compto de Perigord, is seriously f